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Death of fugitive porn actor captured in disturbing video

June 6, 2010 | 9:25
am

Disturbing video has emerged showing the death of a porn actor who police said went on a stabbing rampage at a video production company last week that killed a fellow adult film actor and wounded two other people.

Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, appeared to take his own life Saturday in front of numerous news cameras after a long standoff with police in which he repeatedly threatened suicide.

He spent about eight hours on the edge of a
rocky cliff in West Hills surrounded by police and talking to crisis
negotiators.

With
dusk approaching and Hill continuing to threaten to kill himself,
members of the Los Angeles Police Department's elite SWAT unit tried to
subdue and apprehend him, using a less-than-lethal weapon, said Deputy
Chief Kirk Albanese, who oversaw the incident.

Hill, however,
threw himself over the cliff at 5:30 p.m. Waiting paramedics rushed him
to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead from the injuries he
suffered in the roughly 50-foot fall.

Albanese declined to
discuss details of the weapon police used and the plan that had been
devised to capture Hill, citing the internal investigation that is
launched after every serious use of force by officers. It was unclear
whether the projectile that officers fired had struck Hill or missed.

"He was bent on taking his own life," Albanese said. "It's very unfortunate. We wanted this to end a different way."